A Dictionary of Galactic Extinction

Part I — Conditions of Extinction

1. Photon Deficit
2. Galactic Standard Time
3. Travel
4. Passage
5. Maintenance Cost
6. Closed System
7. Entropy
8. Storage
9. Heat Death

Part II — History

1. First War
2. Galactic Standard Time Accord
3. Declaration on the Right to Connection
4. Second War
5. Third War
6. Third Passage Mandate Act
7. First Observation of the Deficit
8. Return Eligibility Ruling
9. Energy Receivables Accounting Revision
10. Declaration of Extraterrestrial Intervention
11. Fourth War
12. Closure of the Passages
13. Zero-Latency Disaster
14. Fifth and Sixth Wars
15. Activation of the Storage Space
16. Galactic Extinction Determination

Part III — People

1. The First Observer(s) of the Deficit
2. Anton Sokolov — A Travel Expense Is Harder to Prove Than a Single Photon
3. Mustafa Sern — Architect of Galactic Standard Time
4. Han Ji-woo — The Politician Who Designed Civilization’s Moral Progress
5. Ara Bell — The Judge Who Issued the Return Eligibility Ruling
6. Jonah Sett — Founder of the Restoration Church
7. Sundar Patel — The Auditor Who Created Energy Receivables
8. Kai Or — The Administrator Who Ordered the First Closure
9. Asel Ron — The Politician Who Declared the Extraterrestrial Intervention Theory
10. Iren Bas — General of the Galactic Unification War
11. Elian Mor — Chair of the Alliance for the Duty of Preemptive Life Protection
12. Lucy — Route Management AI
13. Immanuel Kant
14. Noah Cain — The Last Scientist

Part IV — Words

1. Immediate
2. Enough
3. Empty
4. Rights
5. Bad Sleep
6. Death
7. Waste
8. Truth
9. Silence
10. Last
11. Slow Ship
12. Relativity
13. Philosophy

Part V — Records

1. Song of the Year When the Light Diminished
2. Declaration Denying Galactic Extinction
3. Twelfth Responsibility Investigation Report
4. List of Vanished Stars
5. The Last Tourist Guidebook
6. Diary of an Unnamed Observer
7. Final Record of the Outer Monastery

Appendix — Index for Those Lost in the Galaxy